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Poster display session: Breast cancer - early stage, locally advanced & metastatic, CNS tumours, Developmental therapeutics, Genitourinary tumours - prostate & non-prostate, Palliative care, Psycho-oncology, Public health policy, Sarcoma, Supportive care

2473 - Pregnancies after breast cancer, is there a real need for fertility preservation ? Results from the ARTEMIS cohort of 60 young patients

Date

22 Oct 2018

Session

Poster display session: Breast cancer - early stage, locally advanced & metastatic, CNS tumours, Developmental therapeutics, Genitourinary tumours - prostate & non-prostate, Palliative care, Psycho-oncology, Public health policy, Sarcoma, Supportive care

Topics

Cancer in Adolescents and Young Adults (AYA)

Tumour Site

Breast Cancer

Presenters

Jerome Martin-Babau

Authors

J. Martin-Babau1, F. Toudic-Emily2, A. Boivin3, P. Burban-Provost2, B. Vie2, P. Etienne1, B. Lamezec2, E. Le Fur2, A. Vincent3, D. Besson1, A. Hardy-Bessard1

Author affiliations

  • 1 Medical Oncology, Centre Armoricain de Radiothérapie Imagerie Medicale et Oncologie, 22198 - Plerin/FR
  • 2 Radiotherapy, Centre Armoricain de Radiothérapie Imagerie Medicale et Oncologie, 22198 - Plerin/FR
  • 3 Bureau De Recherche Clinique Des Cotes D'armor - Bec22, Hopital Prive des Cotes d'Armor, 22198 - Plerin/FR

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Abstract 2473

Background

One of the main problems affecting young women after adjuvant chemotherapy for early breast cancer is the desire for children and the impact of the treatment on this desire and on pregnancy. Many works are ongoing on fertility preservation but what is the real need ? Hence a survey to evaluate these issues in young breast cancer survivors was put in place.

Methods

Patients aged between 18 and 40 years old treated by chemotherapy for non-metastatic breast cancer between 2005 and 2017 were retrospectively asked to respond to this survey, after having signed a consent form.

Results

96 patients were identified, from which 60 agreed and responded to the survey. This high response rate demonstrates the importance of these themes for patients.

Median age at diagnosis was 36 years old (34-40).

Median time between the end of chemo-/radiotherapy and inclusion was of 57 months.

34 patients had node involvement at diagnosis, 10 patients had triple negative tumors.

Adjuvant endocrine therapy was prescribed in 70% of patients from whom 54% were still under treatment at inclusion. Tamoxifen was prescribed in 90% of the cases and complete ovarian suppression for 9.5% of the patients. The mean treatment time was 5 years.

The survey showed that anticancer treatments had a major impact on patients:

Chemotherapy-induced amenorrhea was experienced by 83% of the patients but 86% recovered normal cycles in the following months.

Diagnosis and treatment affected the patients desire for pregnancy: indeed before diagnosis, 31% were hoping to become pregnant; this desire fell to 10% after treatment. However, of these 6 patients: 2 patients became pregnant and 2 miscarried.

Patient’s relationships were affected as 20% declared a change of partner directly or indirectly related to the treatment.

Sexual quality-of-life was impacted in 61% of patients with long-term side effects.

Conclusions

Treatment of breast cancer impacts strongly the quality of life of young breast cancer survivors.

However, definitive amenorrhea related to chemotherapy in these patients occurred in a minority of them and the number of pregnancies reported after treatment is higher than expected if we take into account the desire of pregnancy after treatment.

Clinical trial identification

NCT03470935

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